No. 377.] SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 385 
Prof. W. Pfeffer, of Leipzig, delivered the Croonian Lecture before 
the Royal Society, March 17, upon the nature and significance of 
functional metabolism in the plant. 
The legislature of Massachusetts has granted $200,000 this year 
to aid in the hopeless task of trying to exterminate the gypsy moth. 
Recent appointments: Dr. Charles R. Barnes, of the University of 
Wisconsin, pape of vegetable physiology in the University of 
Chicago. — Dr. W. B. Benham, of the University of Oxford, goes 
to the ried ie of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, as successor to 
the late Professor Parker.— A. L. Bolk, professor of anatomy in the 
University of Amsterdam.—G. Born, professor of anatomy in the 
University of Breslau.—G. C. Bourne, lecturer on comparative 
anatomy in the University of Oxford. — Prof. Carl Chun, of Breslau, 
professor of zoology in the University of Leipzig, as successor to 
Leuckart. — H. T. Fernald, professor of zoology in State College, 
Pennsylvania, economic zoologist of Pennsylvania.— B. E. Fernow, 
chief of the Division of Forestry in the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, director of the school of forestry in Cornell 
University. — Baron von Firks, assistant in geology in the mining 
school at Freiburg, Saxony.— Dr. Sigmund Fuchs, professor extraor- 
dinarius of physiology in the University of Vienna. — Henry Hanna, 
demonstrator of biology, geology, and paleontology in the Royal 
School of Science, Dublin. — Harold Heath, assistant professor of 
zoology,in Leland Stanford University. — Dr. P. Malera, professor of 
physiological chemistry in the University of Naples. — Prof. F. Morini, 
professor of botany at Bologna. — H. W. Pearson, assistant curator 
of the herbarium of the University of Cambridge. — Cornelius L. 
Shear, of the University of Nebraska, assistant agrostologist in the 
United States Department of Agriculture. — H. W. M. Tims, professor 
of zoology in Bedford College, Bedford, England. — Dr. Warburg, 
professor of botany in the University of Berlin. 
Recent deaths: N. Alboff, Russian botanist, at La Plata, — 
Dr. Delmas, geologist, at Custries, France. — Rev. William Houghton, 
ichthyologist, at Wellington, England. — Professor Kirk, of New 
Zealand, author of important works on the flora and forestry in the 
colony. — Alfred Monod, cryptogamic botanist, aged 61.— F. W. 
Seydler, botanist, at Braunsberg, aged 80.— James Thompson, student 
of Coleoptera. — Dr. T. C. Winkler, curator of the Teyler museum at 
Haarlem, well known as a student of fossil vertebrates. 
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